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The WorldPantheistMovement (WPM) is an organization of people associated with pantheism, a philosophy which asserts that spirituality should be centered around nature.

Both of the major pantheist organizations are controversial among people who have strong feelings about the term 'pantheism', reflecting the fact that there are differences within pantheism itself, a term which is necessarily broad in scope.

The WPM approach can be specifically referred to as naturalistic pantheism, which many consider to be distinctly different from classical pantheism.

The WorldPantheistMovement (WPM) is an organization of people associated with (The doctrine or belief that God is the universe and its phenomena (taken or conceived of as a whole) or the doctrine that regards the universe as a manifestation of God) pantheism, a philosophy which asserts that spirituality should be centered around nature.

The WorldPantheistMovement schismed from the (Click link for more info and facts about Universal Pantheist Society) Universal Pantheist Society (UPS) in the mid-1990s, eventually building an organization with a membership considerably larger than that of the UPS.

The WPM approach can be specifically referred to as (Click link for more info and facts about naturalistic pantheism) naturalistic pantheism, which many consider to be distinctly different from (Click link for more info and facts about classical pantheism) classical pantheism.

Furthermore, evolution is seen by Pantheists as being the "universal source" through which all things inside of the universe, including humans, adapted to their environments and interacted to form the world that exists today and the world that is to come.

When Pantheists "pray," they are actually worshipping and meditating to themselves and nature in a natural setting within this all-encompassing, omnipotent entity that we commonly refer to as "the universe." Everything is a part of nature and is made up of the same substance.

In other words, Pantheistic views free people of the fear of death because it acknowledges and affirms that there is a reunion with nature, the cosmos, and humanity's divine mother upon death.

religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu /nrms/SciPanth.html (2544 words)

Open Directory - Society: Religion and Spirituality: Pantheism(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)

Pantheist Age - Essay, poems and links about "the world's oldest religion that is fast becoming the most reasonable religion for the modern world and inquiring minds."

Universal Pantheist Society - An organization devoted to an universal recognition of modern Pantheism.

Why am I a Pantheist - Members of the pantheist community state what pantheism means to them.

dmoz.org /Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/Pantheism (536 words)

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Most Pantheists don't believe in an afterlife in a supernatural manner, but death itself is part of the divine natural cycles of the Universe.

Natural/Scientific Pantheists don't believe in a god, so to speak, but that nature itself, as a magnificent, almost magical, awe-inspiring creator and destroyer, is to be revered.

However, this does not mean that a Pantheist doesn't necessarily recognize "seperate" gods or spirits; they are merely considered to be recognizable, personified parts of the one Spirit.